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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second important distinction that Augustine makes in Book One?
(a) The distinction between Christian love and pagan love.
(b) The distinction between things and signs.
(c) The distinction between encouraging and exhortation.
(d) The distinction between enjoy and use.

2. When Augustine focuses on one of the types of criticism he expects to receive, what does he suggest to the reader?
(a) That these types of critics are stagnant in their thoughts and threaten to limit the influence of Divine guidance.
(b) That these types of critics will either understand Scripture or believe they do.
(c) That these types of critics are a threat to the true Church.
(d) That these types of critics, if they gather a following around their criticism, are dangerously close to practicing heresy.

3. How should a speaker approach subject matter, according to Book Four?
(a) In proportion with the gravity of the subject matter.
(b) With intense seriousness in order to convince the audience of its importance.
(c) With ambivalence to best respond to the moods of audiences.
(d) Lightly because the response of the audience is more important than what the speaker has to say.

4. What does Augustine state an interpreter sometimes looks to to get the right meanings and right number of meanings from a passage?
(a) The author's intentions.
(b) The original language.
(c) The history of the period that the Scripture was recorded.
(d) The original manuscripts.

5. From what type of education does Augustine develop his curriculum of Scriptural learning?
(a) A classical education.
(b) An ecclesiastical education.
(c) A Hasidic education.
(d) A Nazarene education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the primary tool for interpretation for the critics that Augustine primarily focuses on in the Preface?

2. What does Augustine say is the requirement of the Christian speaker who relies on others to write their sermons?

3. What practice does Augustine expect Christian speakers to always take up for their communicative skills?

4. What is the problem for the critics that Augustine addresses in the Preface when they choose to teach?

5. What does Augustine reason is the consequence to human teaching if learning comes from Divine gifts?

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